Lineages of the absolutist state by Perry Anderson(
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"The political nature of Absolutism has long been a subject of controversy within historical materialism. Developing considerations
advanced in Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, this book situates the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against
the prior background of European feudalism. It is divided into two parts. The first discusses the overall structures of Absolutism
as a state-system in Western Europe, from the Renaissance onwards; and the difficult question of the relations between monarchy
and nobility institutionalised by it, for which it suggests a general periodization. It then looks in turn at the trajectory
of each of the specific Absolutist states in the dominant countries of the West - Spain, France, England and Sweden, set off
against the case of Italy, where no major indigenous Absolutism developed. The second part of the work sketches a comparative
prospect of Absolutism in Eastern Europe. It begins with an enquiry into the reasons why the divergent social conditions in
the more backward half of the continent should have produced political forms apparently similar to those of the more advanced
West. The peculiarities, as well as affinities, of Eastern Absolutism as a distinct type of royal state, are examined. The
variegated monarchies of Prussia, Austria and Russia are surveyed, and the lessons asked of the counter-example of Poland.
Finally, the structure of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans is taken as an external gauge by which the singularity of Absolutism
as a European phenomenon is assessed. The work ends with some observations on the special position occupied by European development
within universal history, which draws themes from both Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist
State together into a single argument -- within their common limits -- as materials for debate. Two postscript notes treat,
respectively, the notion of the 'Asiatic mode of production, ' with particular reference to Islamic and Chinese history, and
the experience of Japanese feudalism, as relevant controls for a study of the evolution of Europe up to the advent of industrial
capitalism."--Http://www.amazon.com (April 18, 2011)

Passages from antiquity to feudalism by Perry Anderson(
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"He rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch.
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson's highly acclaimed and influential Lineages of
the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development of absolutism in the diverse
routes taken from the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome to fully-fledged feudalism. In the course of this study
Anderson vindicates and refines the explanatory power of a Marxist conception of history, whilst casting a fascinating light
on Greece, Rome, the Germanic invasion, nomadic society, and the different patterns of the evolution of feudalism in Northern,
Mediterranean, Eastern and Western Europe."--Book cover

Considerations on Western Marxism by Perry Anderson(
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This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat
of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Russian Revolution in the East in the early 1920s. It focuses
particularly on the work of LukAcs, Korsch and Gramsci; Adorno, Marcuse and Benjamin; Sartre and Althusser; and Della Volpe
and Colletti, together with other figures within Western Marxism from 1920 to 1975. The theoretical production of each of
these thinkers is related simultaneously to the practical fate of working-class struggles and to the cultural mutations of
bourgeois thought in their time. The philosophical antecedents of the various school within this tradition-LukAcsian, Gramscian,
Frankfurt, Sartrean, Althusserian and Della Volpean-are compared, and the specific innovations of their respective systems
surveyed. The structural unity of 'Western Marxism', beyond the diversity of its individual thinkers, is then assessed, in
a balance-sheet that contrasts its heritage with the tradition of 'classical' Marxism that preceded it, and with the commanding
problems which will confront any historical materialism to succeed it. From the Trade Paperback edition

Towards socialism by Perry Anderson(
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This collection of 11 essays explore some of the crucial questions that British socialism faced in the 1960s

In the tracks of historical materialism by Perry Anderson(
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What have been the major changes in the intellectual landscape of the left since the mid seventies' Have they on balance represented
an emancipation or a retreat for socialist culture as a whole' In the Tracks of Historical Materialism looks at some of the
paradoxes in the evolution of Marxist thought in this period. It starts by considering the remarkable and variegated growth
of historical materialism in the Anglo-American world, spreading across a broad field from history to economics, politics
to literature, sociology to philosophy. By contrast, the same years have seen a drastic recession of Marxist influences in
the Latin cultures where it was traditionally strong-France or Italy. Its main theoretical challengers there proved to be
successive forms of structuralism and post-structuralism. The common coordinates of these-tracing the outer bounds of the
work of Levi-Strauss or Lacan, Foucault or Derrida-are surveyed and criticized, in the light of the inherent limitations of
the language model from which they derived. In Germany, on the other hand, the theoretical scene has been largely dominated
by the accumulating work of Habermas, with its roots in the Frankfurt School. Yet Habermas's philosophy also reveals unexpected
affinities with the trend of prevalent Parisian concerns, in its unifying emphasis on communication-while at the same time
diverging from them in the constancy of its political commitments. The historical background of international class struggles
against which these variant fates of Marxism in the west were played out is then explored, with special attention to the interconnection
between the destinies of Maoism and Eurocommunism. What, finally, is the nature of the relationship between Marxism as a theory
and socialism as a goal' A conclusion reviews the wider issues posed for the labour movement by the rise of the peace movement
and the women's movement, and suggests a range of priorities for the further development of Marxist thought in the eighties

The origins of postmodernity by Perry Anderson(
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"Where does the idea of the postmodern come from? Who first conceived, and who developed it? How have its meanings changed?
What purposes do they serve? These are the questions addressed in The Origins of Postmodernity. The answers take us from Lima
to Angkor, to Paris and Munich, to China and the stars. At the center of the story is the figure of Fredric Jameson, theorist
supreme of postmodernism. What happens to art, time, politics, in the age of the spectacle? What has ended, and what has begun?"--Book
cover

Spectrum by Perry Anderson(
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"The focus of Spectrum is the range of contemporary ideas that runs from conservative to liberal to radical conceptions of
state and society. Its opening section looks at the theories of four major minds of the twentieth-century Right, whose influence
has been long-lasting in the Atlantic world: Michael Oakeshott, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss and Friedrich von Hayek; thereafter
two prominent political writers in contemporary Britain, Ferdinand Mount and Timothy Garton Ash. The Middle section considers
the late work of three of the most celebrated liberal philosophers of the time, John Rawls, Jurgen Habermas and Norberto Bobbio
- surveying their respective conceptions of the domestic life of Western Democracies, and of a desirable international order.
There follow reflections on a number of significant figures in the culture of the Left: the historians Edward Thompson, Robbert
Breenner and Eric Hobsbawm; the classicist Sebastiano Timpanaro; the sociologist Goran Therborn; the novelist Gabriel Garcia
Marquez. The book ends with some comparative observations on the two leading intellectual periodicals of the UK and USA, the
London Review of Books and New York Review of Books; and a piece of family history."--Book cover

The new old world by Perry Anderson(
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This book offers a magisterial analysis of Europe's development since the end of the Cold War. A major work of modern history
and political analysis, "The New-Old World" punctures both domestic and American myths about continental Europe. Surveying
the post-Cold War trajectory of European power and the halting progress towards social and economic integration, Perry Anderson
draws out the connections between the EU's eastward expansion, a foreign policy largely subservient to America's, and the
popular rejection of the European Constitution. As a neoliberal economic project, pushed forward by a succession of centrist
governments, the European Union cannot afford to allow its peoples a free choice that might dash elite schemes of a post-national
democracy. Anderson explores Hayek's suggestion that protecting a market economy might require exactly this kind of inter-state
structure, out of reach of popular opposition. With landmark chapters on France, Germany, Italy and Turkey, and a wide-ranging
survey of current theories of the Union, "The New-Old World" offers an iconoclastic portrait of a continent that is now being
increasingly hailed as a moral and political exemplar for the world at large

A zone of engagement by Perry Anderson(
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The texts in this volume offer critical assessments of a number of leading figures in contemporary intellectual life, who
are in different ways thinkers at the intersection of history and politics. They include Roberto Unger, advocate of plasticity;
the historians of antiquity and of revolution, Geoffrey de Ste. Croix and Isaac Deutscher; the philosophers of liberalism,
Norberto Bobbio and Isaiah Berlin; the sociologists of power, Michael Mann and W.G. Runciman; the exponents of national identity,
Andreas Hillgruber and Fernand Braudel; the ironists of science, Max Weber and Ernest Gellner; Carlo Ginzburg, explorer of
cultural continuity, and Marshall Berman, herald of modernity. A concluding chapter looks at the idea of the end of history,
recently advanced by Francis Fukuyama, in its successive versions from the nineteenth century to the present, and considers
the situation of socialism today in the light of it

Arguments within English Marxism by Perry Anderson(
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The characteristic form taken by English Marxism since the war has been the study of history. No writer exemplifies its achievements
better than Edward Thompson, whose Making of the English Working Class is probably the most influential single work of historical
scholarship by a socialist today. An editor of The New Reasoner in 1957-59, a founder of the New Left in 1960, now an eloquent
champion of civil rights, Thompson has most recently aroused widespread interest with the appearance of his Poverty of Theory,
which combines philosophical and political polemic with Louis Althusser, and powerful advocacy of the historian's craft. Arguments
Within English Marxism is an assessment of its central theses that relates them to Thompson's major historical writings themselves.
Thus the role of human agency-the part of the conscious choice and active will-in history is discussed through consideration
of its treatment in The Making of the English Working Class. The problems of base and superstructure in historical materialism,
and of affiliation to values in the past, are reviewed in the light of Whigs and Hunters. The claims of utopian imagination
are illustrated from the findings of William Morris. Questions of socialist strategy are broached in part through the articles
now collected in Writing by Candlelight. Exploring at once differences and convergences between New Left Review and one of
its founders, the essay concludes by suggesting the virtues of diversity within a common socialist culture

The question of Europe(
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Essays der belyser Rom-traktatens historie og udvikling

Mapping the West European left by Patrick Camiller(
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English questions by Perry Anderson(
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The intellectual reversals of the recent period. The book concludes with a survey of the political conjuncture after the fall
of Thatcher, which considers the prospects of the Labour Party within the context of the wider changes that have reshaped
European social democracy in these years

American foreign policy and its thinkers by Perry Anderson(
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"Since the birth of the nation, the idea of empire has been at the heart of the United States' image of itself. Through a
close reading of both the acknowledged grand strategists as well as the more non-conformist foreign policy analysts, Anderson
charts the entwined historical development of America's imperial reach and its role as the general guarantor of capital. The
tensions between these are traced from the closing stages of the Second World War through the Cold War to the War on Terror.
Despite the defeat of the USSR, Anderson shows that the planetary structures for warfare and surveillance have not been retracted
but extended. The future of the Empire remains to be settled"--

Conversations with Jean-Paul Sartre by Perry Anderson(
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Jean Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher and author

The Indian ideology by Perry Anderson(
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"Today, the Indian state claims to embody the values of a stable political democracy, a harmonious territorial unity, and
a steadfast religious impartiality. Even many of those critical of the inequalities of Indian society underwrite such claims.
The Indian Ideology suggests that the roots of the current ills of the Republic go much deeper, historically. They lie, in
the way the struggle for independence culminated in the transfer of power from British rule to Congress in a divided subcontinent,
not least in the roles played by Gandhi as the great architect of the movement, and Nehru as his appointed successor, in the
catastrophe of Partition. Only an honest reckoning with that disaster, Perry Anderson argues, offers an understanding of what
has gone wrong with the Republic since Independence"--

The antinomies of Antonio Gramsci by Perry Anderson(
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2018
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"A major essay on the thought of the great Italian Marxist An explosive analysis of the central strategic concepts in the
thought of the great Italian Marxist, Anderson's essay has been the subject of book-length attacks across four decades for
its disentangling of the hesitations and contradictions in Gramsci's highly original usage of such key dichotomies as East
and West, domination and direction, hegemony and dictatorship, state and civil society, war of position and war of movement.
In a critical tribute to the international richness of Gramsci's work, it shows how deeply embedded these notions were in
the revolutionary debates in Tsarist Russia and Wilhemine Germany, in which arguments criss-crossed between Plekhanov, Lenin,
Kautsky, Luxemburg, Lukacs and Trotsky, with contemporary echoes in Brecht and Benjamin. A new preface considers the objections
this account of Gramsci provoked and the reasons for them"